Regular Boxing News columnist and former European super-lightweight champion Joe Hughes looks ahead to tonight’s WBC title clash in Brooklyn and reveals plans for the next chapter in his career as a trainer. DEVIN HANEY and Ryan Garcia are set to battle it out tonight (April 20) for the WBC super-lightweight title. It should be…
IT IS still both peculiar and pleasing to see Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn together some five months after they were first photographed alongside each other, mere moments after they’d first met. We know why they’re now together, of course, but one is left wondering where we might all have been if they hadn’t left…
WIDESPREAD concern regarding Ryan Garcia making weight was validated late Friday morning when the troubled contender came in 3.2 pounds too heavy for his 140-pound title fight against Devin Haney. Garcia officially weighed 143.2 pounds behind closed doors when he stepped on the New York State Athletic Commission’s scale. Haney met his contractual obligation by…
By Elliot Worsell WE are all susceptible to it from time to time; just saying stuff, that is. Saying stuff that in the moment feels right, or wise, or the right thing to say, until, in the aftermath, it is reframed and all of a sudden seems wrong, out of place; the result of cliché…
OSCAR DE LA HOYA predicted Thursday (April 18) that a late surge in ticket sales to the Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia card will result in a sell-out Saturday night at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn. Fans and media have speculated since tickets went on sale that prices were too high, especially since neither Haney nor Garcia…
EDDIE HEARN hasn’t given up hope on the match much of the boxing world wants most for Jaron “Boots” Ennis, a showdown with Terence Crawford. The three-weight world champion has stated that he isn’t interested in what Crawford considers a high-risk, low-reward fight with Ennis, yet Hearn thinks there could be enough money made available…
LISTENING to Xander Zayas you would be forgiven for thinking he had twice the number of pro fights and half the amount of pressure on his shoulders. At 21, his maturity belies his inexperience and his blissful ignorance allows him to disregard what will arrive at his door if, as expected, he lives up to…
BILL HANEY mockingly presented Ryan Garcia with a gift Thursday during the final press conference for Garcia’s 140-pound title fight with his son. Garcia grabbed the copy of “Psychology For Dummies” and immediately tossed it off the stage at Barclays Center. Haney’s father and trainer nonetheless noted that he isn’t buying Garcia’s disturbing behaviour as…
Gary Lockett (Trainer) I think a little bit of both. I agree with Shawn Porter to a certain extent, but I’d say Naoya Inoue is a bona fide star already and is top three pound-for-pound, but I do understand what Porter is saying. The biggest fights have always been in Las Vegas or Madison Square…
(Interview by Declan Warrington) BN: Ahead of your victory in December over Regis Prograis it was still being said that you didn’t deserve the decision over Vasyl Lomachenko. Heading into Saturday’s fight, it’s instead being said how superbly you performed against Prograis. How has that change influenced your build-up to this fight? DH: It doesn’t…
